I'm back and good news! Whatever you did, the arrow keys are working perfectly with the datapad now, and when I move around with WASD while holding the datapad, the datapad pulls back enough that I can see how much I'm moving around. (It used to just cover the screen and I had no idea how far I was moving.) Nice job, thank you for the fix!

Awesome! I look forward to testing it tonight. I'll return with an update once I've had a chance to try things out.

I replied to this in another thread as well. I am having a similar issue, but it's happening EVERY time I bring up the datapad, and NOTHING seems to be alleviating it. I've even exited the game and restarted a new sandbox game, and it still happens. So at least for me, whatever was causing it 4 months ago seems to have gotten worse.

I just started playing and I'm having a similar problem here. I tried setting to alternate datapad controls but it didn't help. I am noticing that I seem to be locked to the controls on the left side (Home, Help, Menu, Exit), I can seem to move between those fine, but I cannot move right onto the rest of the datapad to highlight any other options. Also, there is a constant ticking sound, like the sound when you move the selected option on the datapad... it's almost like there's a virtual left-arrow key being held down.